A recent survey of 250 people living within 10 miles of Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) near Brownville, Nebraska, found that most of the participants had a “favorable impression” of the plant, even in the wake of a hydrogen leak recently discovered at the plant.
Bisconti Research, Inc., along ... Read More »
Biomass and waste fuels generated 71.4 billion kilowatthours of U.S. electricity in 2016, which equals 2 percent of total generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) recently released annual electric power data.
EIA defines biomass fuels as all non-fossil, carbo... Read More »
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported that the relationship between growth in economic activity and increased electricity use has been decoupling in many countries in recent years.
Historically, as economic activity has increased and a country generates more goods an... Read More »
A recent report from the National Weather Service in Monterey, California, revealed that extreme wind conditions were a major factor that contributed to the spread of wildfires that tore through northern California in October.
The National Weather Service (NWS) report from incident meteorologist ... Read More »
The non-profit GridWise Alliance recently released its Grid Modernization Index in collaboration with Clean Edge Inc., a clean energy group based in Portland, ranking California first in the nation for its steps to modernize the electric grid.
The 30-plus page report from the GridWise Alliance, w... Read More »
The price difference between West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil and the global crude oil benchmark, Brent, will hold at $6 per barrel in early 2018 before dropping to $4 per barrel, according to Energy Information Administration (EIA) projections released on Wednesday.
The price spread fore... Read More »
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) declared a “Notification of Unusual Event” (NOUE) Tuesday at its Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska due to a hydrogen leak into a main plant area.
A maintenance crew working on the non-nuclear system discovered the leak. NPPD responded to t... Read More »
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) recently conducted an assessment of potential reliability impacts that would be caused by a disruption in natural gas deliveries and offered recommendations for a new planning approach to reliability.
The assessment, Special Assessment: ... Read More »
BALTIMORE — The resilience of the United States electric power system must be increased to better withstand Mother Nature, cyberattacks, major operations errors and electromagnetic threats from space weather, presenters said Nov. 14 during a session at the National Association of Regulatory Utilit... Read More »
A new data set from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveals that coal-related CO2 emissions saw a record drop in 2015, driven by a more than 60 percent annual decrease across 10 states.
Nearly every state boasted a decline in that period, though. Only four states saw increases re... Read More »